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Unlikely warrior : a Jewish soldier in Hitler's army
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- Summary
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"A YA memoir of an 18-year old part-Jewish youth who, despite his heritage, is drafted into Hitler's army and sent to serve on the Russian front"--
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- Creator
- Georg Rauch ; translated from the German by Phyllis Rauch
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Revised edition
- New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, [2015]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- xxi, 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780374301422, 0374301425, 9780374302771, 0374302774, 9780374301439, 0374301433, 9781250073709, 1250073707
- OCLC
- ocn896806693
- Previously published as The Jew with the Iron Cross : a record of survival in WWII Russia. New York : iUniverse, 2006.
- Secrets in the attic -- The journey east -- Introduction to the trenches -- The hardest thing -- Marianovka--the first battle -- According to Haas -- A true Russian winter -- Into Romania -- Long hot summer on the Dniester -- Romanian respite -- The Iron Cross -- The last battle -- In Russian hands -- The events at Balti -- Kiev--Pushkin's request -- Encounter with a spoon -- The reluctant spy -- The German plot -- Homeward -- Vienna -- End of the odyssey
Subjects
- Rauch, Georg, 1924-2006.
- Rauch, Georg, 1924-2006.
Children's Subject Heading
- Jewish soldiers -- Austria -- Vienna -- Juvenile literature.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Soviet -- Juvenile literature.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish -- Juvenile literature.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish -- Juvenile literature.
- Jewish soldiers -- Austria -- Vienna.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
- Jewish soldiers -- Austria -- Vienna.
Children's Subject Heading
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.
Children's Subject Heading
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
Children's Subject Heading
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
Children's Subject Heading